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In the event, the thrower propels the hammer as far as possible. The tailteann Games, held in ancient Ireland, included throwing the roth cleas, a cartwheel with a handle on its axle. The wheel was soon replaced by a stone attached to a stick, then in the 14th century by a blacksmith's sledgehammer. The event was included in the meets at Oxford and Cambridge in 1866, and the English track and field championships added the hammer throw in 1875
The first Olympic medals were awarded in Paris in 1900, when the blacksmith's hammer was replaced by the ball shaped hammer we know today. It was not until 1999, in Seville that women's hammer throw was an official event in the world championships and it made it Olympic debit in Sydney Australia 2000.
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